Tuesday (3rd - 5th grade)

URCHIN FOCUS GROUPS

Focus Groups are small groups that focus on a specific content theme. We cycle through two themes each year: Math and Literacy

Playing with Math Focus Group 1

Group 1 meets 9:40-10:30 in Classroom A with Joy.

Happy New Year! Our last 2 classes will be spent reviewing X and Division and making Games for the Math Festival on 1/16!

12/11: Visual Math: students "built" X facts using dice and beans.

12/4: Intro to basic division/review of fact families.

11/27: Students played a dice game using multiplication, division, addition and subtraction to see who could get closest to 20. It was challenging and really made them think! Please continue reinforcing X skills at home.

Playing with Math Focus Group 2

Our last 2 classes will be spent reviewing X and Division and making games for the Math Festival on 1/16!

12/11: Reviewed X and Division and played X Bingo.

12/4: Intro. to division using manipulatives to find a single digit remainder.

11/27: Students played a dice game using multiplication, division, addition and subtraction to see who could get closest to 20. It was challenging and really made them think! Please continue reinforcing X skills at home.

We're on making sense of division and on seeing the remainder. We've been playing a remainders card game, and are currently focused on the 7's. If seven kids divide up a box of _____ kittens, how many kittens do they each get, and how many are left over for Sue? Which of these numbers have the same remainder when we are dividing them among seven kids: 41, 12, 18, 62?

Math Games and Puzzles

Games of strategy, number sense, quick wits, and the four operations, along with some Marcy Cook puzzles.

Group meets 11:15–12:05 in the office with Deb

We've been connecting the idea of multiplication to the idea of division, and playing games with remainders.

URCHIN SCIENCE

11/27 We watched a video about volcanoes and learned about the Ring of Fire, types of volcanoes, and some of the igneous rocks that are formed. Students looked at different igneous rocks and used information to identify the names of each. We then worked more on the volcanoes.